Improvement in cultivators and stalk-cutters



N. IETEES, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHEH, WASHINGTON D C l' N ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES G. JOHNSON, OF GARTHAGE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS AND STALK-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 92.834, dated July 20, 1869.

vreference marked thereon, in which- Figurel isatop plan or view of my machine; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of same, as seen from a sectional line, WV S, dotted, in Fig. 1.

It is designed to ha e two sets of the parts bearing the prongs O O and the cutting-edges M M-one set of each-either kind to be used as may be proper for the respective purposes indicated.

The subject of this invention is an apparatus designed for use both in cutting cornstalks and in the cultivation or scarifying of the surface of meadows and such like uses by a slight exchange of parts. y

The apparatus is made as shown in the drawings, and set forth hereinafter in general.

A frame, A A', is mounted on wheels B B, and may be attached to a team for drawing over the elds, and has a drivers seat, D, at its back end. This frame A A has another frame, C C', within it and between the wheels B B. The frame C C is hinged atits forward end to the frame A A, at E E, so as to iioat freely up and down at its back end in passing along. In this frame G C is hung a frame, roller, or cylinder, L, which has bars N N N along its sides, in line with its axis, at suitable distances apart. Ihese bars N N N are made removable by screws or bolts to the these bars-one set with cutter-blades M M, wheel, and it is designed to have two sets of projecting, to cut the corn-stalks and for such like uses, and the other set to have rows of prongs O O O to be driven into the soil, and curved backward and with sharpened points to tear the soil when thrown up vby the turning of the roller for searifying or cultivating the surface of meadows and such like uses. The weight of the inside frame, G C', and wheel L is borne by the cutters or prongs in use to drive them down for their operation, while, if desired, the driver can rest his weight on the back end of the frame C O' to assist; and otherwise the weight of the driver and frame A A is borne on wheels B B. A chain, K, from the back end of frame G C runs up to a small windlass, I, on top of a post, G, on the frame A A', before the driver, so that the driver can turn the crank H to the windlass, and raise the back end of the frame C C and the roller from the ground or drop it for work. y

Witnesses:

SAMUEL JACOB WALLACE,

THOMAS H. GOODWIN. 

